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An epic collection of science fiction tales around space exploration and cosmic horror by the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones – with the titular story, Nightflyers, coming to Netflix in 2018. On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out...

Things are quiet in the megacity of New Montreal. Too quiet for Catherine Leblanc. Earth is safe, the extraterrestrial Antithesis are laying low, and there's only so much tweaking Cat can do to upgrade her mecha—especially without any enemies on the horizon. So to keep her from being bored to death, her girlfriend Lucy suggests she pick up some new skills by signing up for classes at CIAL University.

Alex Archer is a soldier now, the only civilian survivor from Scorpio to join the NAC Defense Corps. With their training complete, Alex and her friend Private Isa Cressey find themselves on emergency combat deployment with their new unit. The destination is the Alpha Corvi system, where an allied warship has vanished. Alex can guess why.

Captain Maxwell Davis and his entire unit scrambled to engage alien ships over Iowa. The aliens snatched him out of his destroyed jet before they continued on their interplanetary hot pursuit. Then they informed Max that Earth was too far outside regular shipping lanes to return him to his planet.

The entire human race balances on the razor's edge of annihilation, beset by an enemy that turns our own bodies against us, that changes normal people into psychopaths or transforms them into nightmares. To some, Doctor Margaret Montoya is a hero-a brilliant scientist who saved the human race from an alien intelligence determined to exterminate all of humanity. To others, she's a monster - a mass murderer single-handedly responsible for the worst atrocity ever to take place on American soil. All Margaret knows is that she's broken. The blood of a million deaths is on her hands.

Shifted by quantum entanglement from Earth to an alien planet, military contractor Zander Greaves and his squad would have to adapt—and quickly—if they wanted to live. As they tried to understand what was happening, the stark truth of their new reality thrust itself on the shaken humans. Giant machines of war were attacking an equally humongous bug. And, quite unfortunately, the giant bug had a lot of little friends.

On Earth, political tensions boil over between the United Americas, Union of Progressive Peoples, and Three World Empire. Conflict spreads to the outer fringes, and the UK colony of New Albion breaks with the Three World empire. This could lead to a Colony War. Trapped in the middle are journalist Cher Hunt, scientist Chad McLaren, and the synthetic Davis. Cher, seeking to discover who caused the death of her sister, Shy Hunt, uncovers a far bigger story. McLaren’s mission, fought alongside his wife, is to stop the militarization of the deadliest weapon of all—the Xenomorph.

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Miéville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive exploration of language in an alien world. Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer...

Die MARION kommt der Atmosphäre des Planeten immer näher - und droht, darin zu verglühen. Damit die Crew überhaupt eine Chance hat, sich zu retten, muss die Brennstoffzelle der NARCISSUS ausgetauscht werden. Und da alle Energieträger auf dem Planeten lagern, sehen Hooper und die anderen nur eine Möglichkeit: Sie müssen mit der letzten intakten Landefähre zu den Minen fliegen. Doch ausgerechnet in der SAMSON lauern die Aliens auf frische Beute.

Humans made a deal with the Stryxian males: Help us defend Earth, and when the war is over, we'll send you women to help rebuild your dying species. Now, the war appears to be over and Trinity Bentzer's number has been called in the lottery. Only, instead of winning a boatload of money, she's getting some badass winged alien she's never met. Trin's not thrilled to be shipped off and matched up, until she meets Raig. Maybe she hit the jackpot, after all.

Die Crew muss sich immer tiefer in das Raumschiff flüchten, um den Aliens zu entkommen - und mit jedem Schritt scheinen sie dabei mehr über die Kultur der Außerirdischen zu erfahren, die dieses Schiff erbaut haben. Sneddon besteht darauf, immer wieder anzuhalten, um ihre Entdeckungen für die Nachwelt zu dokumentieren. Doch als die Gruppe auf eine Kammer voller Eier stößt, droht sie mit ihrer Neugier zu weit zu gehen - mit fatalen Folgen.

The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship Sß Oubliette were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon...by the end of the day, the crews of both starships were dead, victims of a single killer: Captain Alpha Raine. Raine claims he's acting under the command of a voice emanating from the black hole: Mr Modo. No one believes him.Everyone knows that things go into black holes; nothing comes out. But something inexplicable has been happening to Raine, and whatever it is seems to be spreading.

Zilfaquir is having a bad day. Shin-Sho Corporation dispatched his emergency engineering team (EET) to the remote ice planet, Xiao 2, to investigate a communications blackout. The Xiao 2 facility, composed of three subsurface ocean stations, awaits his team below hundreds of meters of ice and kilometers underwater. Upon arrival, he discovers the Xiao 2 facility has experienced an epidemic, leaving most of the station’s personnel either dead or dying. Or transforming. Worse, the stations are in danger of imploding due to sabotage.

Die endgültige Aufnahme der Menschheit in das Imperium der Skiir steht unter keinem guten Stern. Kaum haben die Menschen gezwungenermaßen ihren Platz in der neuen galaktischen Gemeinschaft eingenommen, überzieht eine geheimnisvolle Entität, nur "Zerstörer" genannt, das Reich mit Tod und Vernichtung. Zunehmend zerstritten und am Rande eines Bürgerkrieges richtet sich die Aufmerksamkeit des Reiches auf die Erde, die eine wichtige Rolle in der Abwehr der Bedrohung einzunehmen scheint.

Die beiden Weltraum-Schürfer Bera Sansa und Edian Tarkin stehen kurz davor, ihr Geschäft aufzugeben: Zu wenig einträglich ist die Suche nach Rohstoffen am Rande der bekannten Galaxis. Da entdecken sie ein herrenloses Schiff. An Bord wecken sie vier gelartige, formlose Wesen aus dem Kryo-Schlaf. Diese verwandeln sich - in perfekte Kopien von Bera und Edian! Eine Generation später: Minarel Tarkin, Tochter von Edian und Bera, leitet ein einträgliches und sehr verschwiegenes Unternehmen.

There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone's surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written in the old scripts has been destroyed; modern aural literature is all written to Corporation specifications.

Jemma Redgrave, Clare Higgins, Nicola Bryant and Dan Starkey are among the readers of this exclusive collection of nine original audio adventures. Join the Twelfth Doctor, as played on TV by Peter Capaldi, as he meets friends and enemies new and old on these journeys in Time and Space. In the...

After nearly twenty years, Vernor Vinge has produced an enthralling sequel to his memorable bestselling novel A Fire Upon the Deep, the third in the Zones of Thought series. Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that...

After the explosive events surrounding MPF6's destruction on Karkin Four, Wic and his team of daredevil operators join forces with the rebel force known as the Blood Guard. While the Phantoms desire to help relocate human refugees to safer worlds, they're forced to confront a more pressing objective: cut off the head of the beast and keep the Androchidan Empire from enslaving another world. Wic is immediately flung into the heat of battle, driven by retaliation, a need for justice, and the need to send a message to all other deviant species who'd wish to take advantage of the innocent.

Anne Winkler hat eine tödliche Injektion erhalten, ihr bleiben nur wenige Tage. Ihre einzige Hoffnung sind die "Spuren der ersten Menschheit". Die Zivilisation aus der Frühzeit der Erde hat tatsächlich Spuren in unserer Zeit hinterlassen, viel mehr als im ersten Moment vermutet. Diese Spuren deuten auf einen großen Plan hin, aber um Antworten zu finden, muss sich Anne in die Höhle des Löwen begeben. Sie macht sich auf die Reise zu Korghs geheimer Basis, wo sie in mehr als einer Hinsicht überrascht wird. Und mehr von dem Plan entschlüsselt, der hinter dem Erbe der Lantis steckt.